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This week's Sandwich Club sandwich is Kielbasa on Kaiser, $3.50 at Felix Mish in Ville Émard

MONTREAL - There’s nothing newfangled about the sandwiches at this Polish deli, which was first opened in 1961 by Lezajsk immigrant Felix Mish (who has to be a contender for the best name ever). A fixture of southwest Montreal, it’s now run by his son Ron Mish, a graduate of nearby James Lyng High School.

Not much has changed since the early days. Among shelves of imported grocery items, display cases show off a selection of cured meats and Old World sausages still made from scratch: hams are ground, spiced, stuffed and smoked on the premises in the 50-year-old smoker. Like the choice of kielbasa – in Poland, the word simply means sausages, and would traditionally refer to ring sausage – the prices at Felix Mish are old-fashioned, too: the baseline is $3.50; add 25 cents for cheese, and 75 cents for a pickle.

The spread: While your typical sausage sandwich is served with a whole or halved link wedged onto a bun, at Felix Mish it’s sliced and stacked. The result is surprisingly soft, with a faint pop of the casing when you bite into it.“I find that doing it lengthwise on the slicer brings out the flavour, and it’s not such a hard chew,” Mish notes.

The kielbasa here is a fine-grained, lightly smoked pork sausage known as debreczyna. Other fixings include the moist tang of sauerkraut, almost-melted Swiss Emmental cheese and horseradish mustard called chrzanowa musztarda from Ontario-based brand European Fine Foods. The whole thing is gently warmed before serving.

The secret: It may not be as well known as another recently acquired purveyor in this city, but Felix Mish also makes a mean smoked meat sandwich on rye.

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